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stousetyesterday at 8:56 PM1 replyview on HN

It doesn’t even matter. The sheer disparity in vulnerabilities over twenty years versus one year is impossible to hand-wave away.

We are talking about fourfold more CVEs over a twentyfold reduction in time.


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gpmyesterday at 10:42 PM

It really does matter. I don't know enough about this specific case, but multiple order of magnitude differences in CVE numbers are frequently explained by different policies towards finding and assigning CVEs in many many cases.

Absent more information the default should be to hand wave it away as probably such a difference. CVE counts are not a even slightly reliable metric.

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